FreeThink #4: On Art, Creativity, and Bringing Awe back to Anthropology
As you may have noticed, TAL has been on a bit of a break from releasing new episodes. But, the good news is that we have not been…
Free video analysis tools
Free video (& audio) analysis and transcription tools, partly collected via the VISCOM list serv. AQUAD 7 is a software for qualitative coding and qualitative content analysis. ELAN…
We need to think about redefining citizenship in the Anthropocene
The concept of citizenship originally described inhabitants of (probably walled) towns. Some insistence on specificity of place certainly remains, although the concept today generally refers to nation…
The Thomas Marchione Food-as-a-Human-Right Student Award
Do you or someone you know do research related to food justice, food security, or food as a human right? It is time to consider applying for this…
Ice Cream and Architecture
Outer Space Podcast Trilogy 3: Ice Cream and Architecture
Reader reviews of The Three-Headed Dog
Reviewers of The Three-Headed Dog have been showing they get it: The detective-narrator is a woman with a complicated and conflicted interior life. It’s about how migrants sneak…
Elementarteilchen der Sprache und ihre Verarbeitung im Gehirn
Prof. David Poeppel, Direktor der Abteilung Neurowissenschaften am neugegründeten Max-Planck-Institut für Empirische Ästhetik in Frankfurt, hat gestern einen Vortrag zum Thema „Die Elementarteilchen d…
Anthropology as post-hermeneutics
Bits & Pieces Put Together to Present a Semblance of a Whole, by Lawrence Weiner, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (1991). by Peter Versteeg The first thing that came…
Difference in the Anthropocene: Indigenous Environmentalism in the Face of Settler Colonialism
Both Todd and Whyte argue that achieving climate justice for and by Indigenous people requires addressing the ways in which global environmental change is intimately connected with— and…
Talking to the BBC about social media in China
Earlier this month, I was very fortunate to be interviewed by the BBC on my research onto the use of technology in China. The article that was published…
Coding Culture II: Four Hacks to Digitize Your Anthropology Classroom
This is the second post in a multi-part blog series in which Katherine Cook shares her experiences integrating digital anthropology into her teaching. Technology is complicated and expensive,…
Einkaufstüten: Chinas Bürger haben die Qual der Wahl
Seit dem 01. Juni 2008 werden Plastiktüten in allen Supermärkten Chinas nur noch kostenpflichtig bereitgestellt. Außerdem werden die Käufer dazu animiert, umweltfreundliche Beutel zu benutzen. Sind d…
anthro in the news 3/13/17
Source: Google Images Commons not all lives are equal Al Jazeera published an op-ed by Alex Shams, anthropology doctoral student at the University of Chicago: “Earlier this week,…
Einkaufstüten: Chinas Bürger haben die Qual der Wahl
Seit dem 01. Juni 2008 werden Plastiktüten in allen Supermärkten Chinas nur noch kostenpflichtig bereitgestellt. Außerdem werden die Käufer dazu animiert, umweltfreundliche Beutel zu benutzen. Sind d…
A discourse of displacement: the local infrastructure of populism
Who are ‘the people’? In the Netherlands, the construction of ‘the people’ occurs within a particular context of political and social transformation – the culturalization…
Science, objectivity, race, gender
Have you heard of Space + Anthropology? This group blog through Medium.com brings together commentaries on the intersections between tech, culture, space, sci-fi, art, and anthropology. We alread…
Science, objectivity, race, gender
Have you heard of Space + Anthropology? This group blog through Medium.com brings together commentaries on the intersections between tech, culture, space, sci-fi, art, and anthropology. We alread…
Gregory Mitchell, “Tourist Attractions: Performing Race and Masculinity in Brazil’s Sexual Economy” (U. Chicago Press, 2015)
Moving through the saunas of Rio de Janeiro, the Amazonian eco-resorts of Manaus, and the Afro-Brazilian heritage of Bahia, Tourist Attractions: Performing Race and Masculinity in Brazils Sexual…
Introducing the terrifying mathematics of the Anthropocene
In 2000, Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen and Eugene Stoermer proposed that human impact on the atmosphere, the oceans, the land and ice sheets had reached such a scale…
Der Überlebenskampf des Christentums im „Sumpf“ Japans? Christliche Bewegungen zwischen japanischem Buddhismus und portugiesischem Katholizismus
SILENCE erschien am 02. März 2017 (Trailer, Eintrag IMDB) in den deutschen Kinos und gilt als das Herzensprojekt von Oscar-Preisträger Martin Scorsese (Regisseur). Basierend auf dem Roman „Schweigen“…
Death – The Great (In)Equalizer
A traditional Western European plague doctor; they were hired en masse during the “Black Death” epidemic. Retrieved from http://www.themiddleages.net/plague.html Death is an omnipotent for…
What Foodanthro is reading now, March 14 edition
Jo Hunter-Adams A brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Got items you think we should include? Send links and brief descriptions to…
Review: Ayya’s Accounts
**Review first published in Pacific Affairs 1926, Vol 89 (3): 696-698.** by Geert De Neve Ayya’s Accounts is a most wonderful product of listening, narrating and co-writing between…